CIVIL & STRUCTURE DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING & BUILT ENVIRONMENT

THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MALAYSIA

REPORT OF PROJECT SUSTAINABLE URBAN PLANNING

SEMESTER II, SESSION 2012/2013

KKKH4284 SUSTAINABLE URBAN PLANNING

Assignment Title:

TASK 5

LOCAL AGENDA 21

Lecturer:

PROF. IR. DR. RIZA ARIQ ABDULLAH BIN O.K RAHMAT

Group Member:

NURSYAHIDA BINTI BAHARIN A128791

You are given a task by the mayor of your hometown to evaluate and give suggestion on how to

plan the town in accordance with Local Agenda 21. Write a brief report on your evaluation and

suggestion.

EDUCATIONS

The educations system in my home town mostly are for higher education such as university.

Only one of the universities under government’s management. Other than that are privatization

university. Education system must be systematic and reliable for living purpose. We must try to

develop a new reliable system, such as from examination based system to long life learning and

application based system. This will help the youth to be more creative and can help to be

pioneers.

JOB AND OPPORTUNITIES

Here have a lot of job and their opportunities. There are various type of job that offered in this

town. Some in government department and some in private department. Mainly in this town are

in government department because this is the main town for this country. We also can help

improve business and connect the town to other area by producing resources to be export to other

parts of the country. This might increase the economic growth for the people.

TRANSPORTATION

In my hometown, there a a lot of public transport to bring people in this area of city. But there

have some problem with this public transport. As we know that the public make our job more

easy. For this situation, the location of station for public transport is not strategy. Many people

complaining hoe to go to the station by themselves. At least they need a transportation to do

catch the public transport. Then, they are rather to drive their own transportation.

Mobility is one of the main issues to be improvised. We can start by enhancing the public

transportation system by adding more route and path for a shorter commute for the people. Good

public transportation system will lead to more people usage percentage. Hence, this can help

reduce traffic congestion an help conserve the environment too.

GREEN BUILDING

Mostly building in this hometown are not in categories of green building. Because of all the

building in this town are made from concrete and steel. There is no background based on green

building index.

Then architects and engineers must try to develop a green building design before developing new

areas. We must try to use best management practices in construction to reduce energy

consumption, reduce waste production and optimize laborers and machineries to help saving the

environment.

POWER AND WATER SUPPLY

We need to use optimize system for this aspect. For example, housing area must use energy

saving applicants and lights. Industrial area must optimize machineries use and use labors to do

simple jobs to help reduce electricity usage. People nowadays become lazier due to enhancing

technologies. But to reduce electricity, we need to help by using our own energy too

GREEN AND PARKS

Local authorities have extensive environmental responsibilities and can initiate and support more

explicitly sustainable activities in areas such as waste reduction and recycling, management

of environmental media and nature conservation. These can involve protecting natural amenities

,resources, landscapes and habitats; promoting and catering for environmentally-friendly leisure

activities and facilities; and supplying information for users on how to achieve and maintain a

“greener” local environment.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The sustainable development concept can be described as a desire for continuous maintenance

of adequate proportions between the need of development and the necessity of retaining natural

resources and protecting the natural environment, with none of the elements weakening with

time but giving stimulus to further actions. The system is prone to evolutional transformations

leading to reinforcement of development foundations. The essence of a region sustainable

development comes down to creating a new, durable potential that generates its own, internal

mechanism of evolution. The potential including resources, economical structure, as well as

value of regional space should favor creating new values, satisfy needs of regional and local

community and should not cause (or should eliminate) any negative side effects in the

surroundings.